Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to North Dakota

Measured against the national total for each industry, North Dakota is strongest in food manufacturing, with 0.31% of the US jobs, and weakest in grocery and related product wholesale, with 0.23%. The state holds 0.08% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Cass holds 82.5% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 89.5%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

North Dakota stands 536 jobs behind Wyoming and 140 ahead of Hawaii. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so North Dakota sits at 6 percent of that line.

• The average North Dakota warehousing site employs 24 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 29 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 3.87 people for every warehousing job in North Dakota; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 678 jobs in North Dakota, 0.1% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Cold storage runs 6,954 thousand cubic feet of gross refrigerated capacity for every thousand warehousing jobs here, against 2,098 thousand for the country as a whole.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and North Dakota has 0.6% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments North Dakota is 43rd of fifty, and by average site size it is 46th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing North Dakota ranks 44th with 5,564 jobs, 0.3% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 1,287 of the state's 1,438 warehousing jobs, so 151 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for North Dakota in pharmaceutical manufacturing and motor vehicle assembly. Those gaps are in the data, which hides or omits small cells to protect privacy; they are not a claim that the industry is absent, and a missing row above means the same.

Loads for North Dakota often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by North Dakota's 1,438, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Minnesota, Montana, and South Dakota.

The table sets North Dakota beside each state that borders it on the same five measures: establishments, jobs per site, food manufacturing jobs for each warehousing job, share of the US warehousing total, and sites for every thousand warehousing jobs. All of it is arithmetic on the BLS counts named in the sources.

• To reach the median state's 23,211 warehousing jobs, North Dakota would need to add 21,773; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 245.
• Its 0.08% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.31% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 4.15: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 61 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 732 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in North Dakota fall in 580 to 588, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Food manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 5,564 jobs, 3.87 for every warehousing job and 91 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 5,564 food manufacturing jobs by the 61 warehousing sites gives 91.2; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.08% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 1,250 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 61 North Dakota sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 4,970 warehousing jobs, which is 3,532 more than the 1,438 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Minnesota has 16,483 more warehousing jobs, 251 more sites and 42,265 more food manufacturing jobs than North Dakota, so a Minnesota dock averages 57.4 jobs per site against 23.6 here, and 2.67 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.87.
• Montana has 1,010 fewer warehousing jobs, 9 fewer sites and 3,072 fewer food manufacturing jobs than North Dakota, so a Montana dock averages 8.2 jobs per site against 23.6 here, and 5.82 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.87.
• South Dakota has 1,831 more warehousing jobs, 19 fewer sites and 5,302 more food manufacturing jobs than North Dakota, so a South Dakota dock averages 77.8 jobs per site against 23.6 here, and 3.32 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.87.

• Food manufacturing employs 5,564 in North Dakota, 0.31% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 3.87 of these jobs.
• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 1,946 in North Dakota, 0.23% of the 829,364 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.35 of these jobs.

• Cass is 1st of the counties shown with 1,186 warehousing jobs, which is 50.3 times the average North Dakota site headcount of 24 and 0.06% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Grand Forks is 2nd of the counties shown with 73 warehousing jobs, which is 3.1 times the average North Dakota site headcount of 24 and 0.00% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Traill is 3rd of the counties shown with 28 warehousing jobs, which is 1.2 times the average North Dakota site headcount of 24 and 0.00% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in North Dakota begin with 580 to 588.
• Receiving hours and whether delivery needs an appointment.
• The footprint and the number of pallets, or the number of trailers.
• The three ratings the load needs, or a description of the load.
• Resin and colourant papers wanted, if the pallets touch food or pharma product.
• The month you want them, and whether a standing supply follows.
• Whether the dock has a loading dock or needs a liftgate trailer.